Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-18
CIR sNDPA GEORGE JONES.
Some RecolicctiOBs of His Early
Career, by nn cid fsseDd.

career, by an ola fsieWd.
On October rs, 1856, George Jones,
editor Of the New Yoik Times, WAS
married in the pdrlor Of what was
then u dwelling house. but which is
now the Budget building, and that
pdrlor in which the marriage cere-
niohy was performed is now the
Budget countins-room. Mr.. Levi
WiIIlrd, the former veteran news
dealer, we'll remembers Mr.. Jones a.
he ap cared to the "n,ked eye" more
than half q century ago. He says
that Mr.. Jones w.s u YER
mont hoy, who came down to
Troy from the Green Mountains
To commence the battle If life, and at
the time of his marriage MIR. Jones
VAS clerk in store in thi- city.
He was bright, active, intelli.e' t
and honest young man OF gool habits
and correct department, diligent il,
his calling and aft IDLE II his man
ners. From Troy he went to Alban,
and had there for u number of year
an exchange Office and newsroom ia
the Marble I'ill,r hnil,ling, no thwe-t
,rner of Sta Q street amt Br a Iva. .
In addition e. tile business OF bu! Ing
and selling Ut uncurrent money, Mr..
Jones soon added TINT of redemption
agent for certain Vermont and New
York State banks, profitable bu-i-
ness in those DAYS. The la,e Henry
J. Raymond, while member vi HE
Legislature, was in the habit Of hny-
ing his newspapers at the Marble
Pillar newsroom. AMI thus he became
well acquainted with MIR. Jones'. II
was while Mr. RIA, nrmd was Speaker
of the Assembly in 1851 that he and
Mr.. Jones conceived the plan to es-
tablish the New York Times, the Fl It
number Of Gin was issuei late in
the summer or early in the fall Of the
year. Tn y made a great mistake in
buying the oil church property, on
the site of which they erected the
present Times building, and
ir m which the Times has been issued
ever since. Fer the first year the
Times was half its present size. In
tile SUMMER. OF the year it was starte I
Air. RAYMOND went to Enrnpe and
engaged some Of the brightest men
there to correspond with the Times
among them Mr. Goo irich, then
American Consul at Paris, and knoan
to all the boys Of the p st generation
as peter farley" That was the
Kossuth year, ANA the Timss was the
Kos~urh paper of the p Rod. No
European ever visited III 'se shores
VII, excired tie profound in
terest and attention OF the
American people TO 80 great an extent
as did the Y eat Hu gsrian who il
still among the In, ing great men who
prominently mark the history OF the
century. Not even .aftyette, in his
vi it to this country in 1924, received
greater attention from the ,nieriari
people. No newspaper has rendered
greater services to the American
people, in the interests Of honest gov
rnuent than has the New York
Times. 1t is doubtful whether the
Tweed ring would have been for
ever piHoried in ilfamy but for the
vigorous fight of the Times, Mr..
George Jones was the man who stood
unfinchinply and conrageou-ly back
of the Times and refused to be lure
from the fight, though tempted by the
offer of a million dollars to stop the
alta ks on the Tweed ring. 1t is to
the everlasting credit Of Mr.. .Ioues
and to the und,ing honor OF Ameri-
can journalism that he refused to be
tempted. He wasn't that kind OF d
man. Mr.. Jones is one Of the II VS.
.aper men of the country whose
name ought always to he hell in
grateful remembrance.-(rroy Bud